gyroscopic forces alone don't keep bicycles up

we built a bicycle with extra counter-rotating wheels (canceling the wheel spin angular momentum) and with its front-wheel ground-contact forward of the steer axis (making the trailing distance negative). When laterally disturbed from rolling straight, this bicycle automatically recovers to upright travel.

Source: A Bicycle Can Be Self-Stable Without Gyroscopic or Caster Effects

added 2013-08-06T19:04:58Z by anders

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